Alex's swim journal

6000 yards...

My legs were still pretty wasted today from yesterday's kick sets, especially the breast, and the shoulder was still stiff, though the ibuprofen I took about an hour before I began finally started to kick in toward the end of the first set. Nevertheless, I thought it would be wise to drop the last set... don't want to push it over the limit and not be able to make the meet... this workout was already coming at the end of a pretty tough couple of weeks. Here's what I ended up doing:

Warm-up:
6 x 200 alt free/pull, only enough rest to grab the buoy or put it back on the deck

Thanks for asking. Next meet is next Sunday (3/3) and I am planning on tapering a little bit, but because I'm doing 400 IM, 200 IM, back, free, and breast I'm not going to taper much. It'll be a lactic acid bath, so I have to keep pushing the next few days on the hard swimming in the 2:45 to 7:00 range. Then I'll ease up around Wednesday, maybe do some short bursts and technique work at the end of the week... definitely work on the starts again.